John Sandham Warren

Timeline

1820 – 25^th August – Baptised in Midhurst by his parents, Charles and Jane Warren.

1840 – Nominated to join the East India Company as a cadet for the Bengal Infantry[1].

1846 – 28^th January – Engaged in the battle of Aliwal (The First Anglo-Sikh war) [2].

1846 –Received a medal for his part in the Sutlej Campaign[3].

1847 – 1^st April – Promoted to Ensign.

1848 – Served against the Boer insurgency[4].

1848 – 20^th October – Promoted to Lieutenant and received his own regiment, the 73^rd Bengal Native Infantry[5].  

1850 – May – Promotion from Lieutenant to Captain[6].

1851 – 31^st March – Census – John Sandham Warren living at Sheep Lane, Midhurst, with his sister Margaret Warren.

1851 – Served in the Kaffir War[7].

1853 – March – Captain John Sandham Warren transferred from the Cape Mounted Rifleman to the 91^st Foot.

1853 – Returned to England[8].

1854 – Appointed as Deputy Governor of Millbank Prison[9].

1856 – 3^rd April – Married Helen Marianne Daniell in Paddington[10][11]  .

1857 – Governor of the prison hulk, ‘Defence’.

1857 – 14^th July – The Defence spontaneously caught fire, supposedly due to a recent delivery of coal. To put out the fire, they scuttled the ship and transferred the prisoners, and Warren, to a temporary residence at Lewes [12].

1857 – After the transfer of Prisoners to Lewes’ temporary invalid prison, he became Governor there[13].

1858 – Sussex Gazette – Living at 11 Priory Crescent, Lewes, Captain John Sandham Warren[14].

1859 – 1865 – Made Governor of Woking Convict Invalid Prison.

1868 – 21^st March – John Sandham Warren’s eldest son, 9 year old Arthur John Sandham Warren, died in Worthing[15].

1871 – Justice of the peace in Sussex and living in Worthing, Chapel Road[16].

1881 – 1883 – Alderman for Bristol.

1886 – Moved to Showborough House, Tewkesbury[17]. This site now hosts a sculpture garden.

1889 – 27^th November – Captain John Sandham Warren died of an ‘affectation of the heart’ in Tewkesbury [18].

1908 – 25^th December – The Widow of Captain Warren, Helen Mary Ann Warren, died.

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[1] Search.findmypast.co.uk. (2019). East India Company – Register of Petitions. [online] Available at: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BL%2FBIND%2FL-MIL-9-195%2F00062&parentid=BL%2FBIND%2FL-MIL-9%2F5324 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[2]Search.findmypast.co.uk. (2019). Hart’s Army List For 1850. [online] Available at: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FUS%2FMCV%2FARMY%2FNEWANNUALARMYLIS1850LOND%2F0279&parentid=S2%2FUS%2FMCV%2FARMY%2FNEWANNUALARMYLIS1850LOND%2F0279 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[3] Ibid 2

[4] The Tewkesbury Register & gazette (1889). Deaths.

[5] Ibid2

[6] Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. (1850). Military Promotions and Exchanges. [online] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18500523/007/0002 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[7] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[8] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[9] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[10] Findmypast.co.uk. (2019). Parish Marriage Registers. [online] Available at: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_854304425 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[11] https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz320unkngoog/page/n652?q=%22John+Sandham+Warren%22

[12]En.wikipedia.org. (2019). HMS Defence (1815). [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Defence_(1815) [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[13] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[14]Search.findmypast.co.uk. (1858). Sussex, Melville’s Directory & Gazetteer, 1858. [online] Available at: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FGBOR%2FLEICS%2F315836%2F0196&parentid=S2%2FGBOR%2FLEICS%2F315836%2F0196 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[15] The Atlas (1868). Deaths. [online] p.19. Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002117/18680327/102/0019 [Accessed 29 Sep. 2019].

[16] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[17] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

[18] Ibid – Tewkesbury Register

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